Dresden, Germany's version of Florence, dazzles with Baroque beauty, rich history, and a vibrant cultural scene.

He explained: "Before the Right-wingers in Dresden occupied this crazy idea after the wall came down in Berlin, it was the communist regime in East Germany which started directing the anger about ...

Matthias Sammer's journey through the world of football is a testament to the extraordinary interplay between talent, environment, and personal struggle. Born in 1967 in Dresden, East Germany, ...

After the war, Dresden had ended up in East Germany, and though the East Germans had patched up a few antique landmarks, the communist regime had neither the money nor the inclination to conduct a ...

(JTA) — A new synagogue billing itself as a neo-Hasidic congregation has opened in the former East German city of Dresden, without the backing of Germany’s main Jewish communal umbrella ...

Dresden, Germany — Two people died and one was injured after a fire broke out on the 11th floor of a high-rise building in the eastern German city of Dresden, fire services spokesman Michael ...

1818), the Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich is a "German icon ... city of Dresden, where he lived, said Oliver Smith in the FT, and to walk in the countryside to its east, where he found ...

In Dresden, East Germany he witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. With the collapse of the Soviet Union two years later, Putin and 800,000 KGB officers were left shipwrecked.

Finally, the East German government tried to redevelop Dresden into a modern city of high-rise apartment complexes and later more human-sized prefabricated buildings. The last stage of the ...

Victor Gregg, a British prisoner of war in Dresden in 1945 who lived through the Allied bombings of the city, described the onset of the attack in the Guardian in 2013: “As the incendiaries ...